> TODAY'S SUMMARY (14 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights several critical developments. Scammers are leveraging replies to unsolicited texts to confirm active phone numbers, increasing the risk of fraud. A significant cyberattack utilized 51 AI agents to compromise 429 WordPress sites and steal sensitive Ukrainian data in just over a minute. Additionally, low-cost Android phones are being shipped with pre-installed malware, turning them into tools for ad fraud and other malicious activities. Mozilla has launched Firefox Enterprise, offering enhanced management tools for organizations, while VMware's patch management concerns indicate a growing need for better security tools. Lastly, Booz Allen's AI models successfully navigated all defined attack objectives in a controlled test, showcasing the evolving capabilities of AI in cybersecurity.
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// AI-powered summary generated at 08:01
Google has won preliminary court approval to settle a class-action lawsuit related to alleged privacy violations caused by its Buzz social networking service.
The Center for Internet Security (CIS) released an updated version of its information security metrics developed through the consensus of 150 information security experts in the public and private sectors.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested a 31-year-old California man for hacking into victims’ computers, downloading explicit photos, and then using the photos to extort more photos and videos from the victims, who were usually teenage girls.
The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) has issued an industry alert to SCADA systems operators and other interested parties that many SCADA installations can now be located on the web using the SHODAN public search engine.
Vulnerability specialist Idappcom has released a freeware version of its Traffic IQ Pro security audit and penetration testing software.
A new distributed denial of service (DDoS) trojan, which attacks blogs and forums that criticize the Vietnamese Communist Party, is part of an increasing trend of politically motivated cyber attacks, according to Joe Stewart, director of malware analysis at SecureWorks’ Counter Threat Unit.
Internet security firm Webroot has acquired Derby, UK-based anti-malware cloud provider Prevx.
US internet security firm Webroot has acquired Derby-based anti-malware cloud provider Prevx.
Google is expanding its reward program to compensate security researchers who find flaws in Google’s web applications, such as YouTube, Blogger, and Orkut.
Facebook has revealed it has suspended an unspecified number of developers for selling user identification numbers (UIDs) to an unnamed data broker.
Facebook has revealed it has suspended an unspecified number of developers for selling user identification numbers (UIDs) to an unnamed data broker.
The Identify Theft Council, a recently launched consortium of businesses, community groups, and law enforcement based in San Francisco, is proposing a “Neighborhood Watch” program for identity theft modeled on the programs designed to reduce neighborhood crime.
Black Hat Abu Dhabi takes place at the Emirates Palace on November 8/11.
A man arrested in Armenia last week in connection with the operation of the BredoLab botnet - which the Dutch authorities recently shut down - has been revealed to be a major affiliate of the Spamit.com group.
Most organisations acknowledge they are part of the critical national infrastructure (CNI) and believe a cyber attack could disrupt their country's mission-critical systems in the next two years, but are not well prepared for it, a study has revealed.
The overall risk on the web is rising, with 6.2% of the 27 million websites surveyed by McAfee posing a security risk in 2010, up from 5.8% of the websites surveyed last year, according to the security firm’s Mapping the Mal Web report.
Last month's spam attack on the LinkedIn business social networking site's members was one of the largest attacks of its type in history, according to the latest monthly spam report from Kaspersky Lab.
Reports that the Avalanche gang, now the world's most prolific phishing group, have diversified their operations over from conventional phishing emails to distributing the ZeuS Trojan, is another sign that hackers are becoming incredibly sophisticated, says Imperva, the data security specialist.
Targeted cyber attacks have increased significantly in the past five years, Symantec's latest MessageLabs Intelligence report has revealed.
Targetted cyber attacks have increased significantly in the past five years, Symantec's latest MessageLabs Intelligence report has revealed.